“Beatles: Rock Band” Trailer #3 Debuts and Alleged Track List Leaks

by Tony Sclafani

The Beatles: Rock Band is set to hit stores Sept. 9, and you can get a preview of how it will look by checking out the trailer. According to Rolling Stone, the game's design shows "amazing attention to detail" and depicts The Beatles performing in a variety of settings, such as Liverpool and on the "Ed Sullivan Show" stage.

Worth Playing (via: Rolling Stone) is also reporting the contents of the track list, which was purportedly leaked. The featured songs are listed below, with the albums they're from in italics above. Abbey Road is the most represented single disc release here, with five of its tracks being chosen.

Singles:
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Feel Fine
Day Tripper
Paperback Writer
Revolution
Don’t Let Me Down

Please Please Me:
I Saw Her Standing There
Boys
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Twist and Shout

With the Beatles:
I Wanna Be Your Man

A Hard Day’s Night:
A Hard Day’s Night
Can’t Buy Me Love

Beatles For Sale:
Eight Days a Week

Help!:
Ticket To Ride

Rubber Soul:
Drive My Car
I’m Looking Through You
If I Needed Someone

Revolver:
Taxman
Yellow Submarine
And Your Bird Can Sing

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help From My Friends
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Getting Better
Good Morning Good Morning

Magical Mystery Tour:
I Am The Walrus
Hello Goodbye

The Beatles (White Album):
Dear Prudence
Back In the U.S.S.R.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Birthday
Helter Skelter

Yellow Submarine:
Hey Bulldog

Abbey Road:
Come Together
Something
Octopus’s Garden
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun

Let It Be:
Dig a Pony
I Me Mine
I Got a Feeling
Get Back

Love:
Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows

All you need is love, a console and Beatles: Rock Band

Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney promote an upcoming game featuring The Beatles' music. Credit: David Sprague / For The Times

It was a Beatles reunion, with Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney sharing the stage at this morning's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. The two living members of the legendary band dropped in on the Microsoft press conference to show off a new video game: the Beatles: Rock Band, developed by Harmonix and published by MTV Networks.

The game, due out Sept. 9, will let players jam along with the Fab Four as they roll through the ages. The game will feature classics such as "Here Comes the Sun," "A Hard Day's Night" and "Octopus' Garden." Players will be able to download playable tracks from the entire "Abbey Road" album.

Yoko Ono, widow of John Lennon, and Olivia Harrison, widow of lead guitarist George Harrison, also took their bows at the press conference.

As for Lennon and Harrison, their in-game likenesses played across jumbo-sized screens at the press conference.

"Who would have thought we'd end up as androids?" McCartney joked.

-- Alex Pham

The Beatles: Rock Band Hits Sept. 9 for $250 With Instruments

By Brian Crecente

The Beatles: Rock Band will hit worldwide on Sept. 9, MTV, Harmonix and Apple Corps. announced today.

The Beatles: Rock Band will allow fans to pick up the guitar, bass, mic or drums and "experience The Beatles extraordinary catalog of music through gameplay that takes players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the band's legendary career," according to the release.

The game will also have a limited number of new hardware offerings modeled after instruments used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr throughout their career.

The game will be sold as standalone software and hardware as well as a limited edition bundle. It will also be compatible with all Rock Band instrument controllers and other current music-based video game peripherals.

Available on 9/9/09:
• The Beatles: Rock Band Software - Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, Wii: $59.99 MSRP
• The Beatles: Rock Band Standalone Guitars - Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, Wii: $99.99 MSRP
• The Beatles: Rock Band Limited Edition Premium Bundle: Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, Wii: $249.99 MSRP

The pricing for the game outside the U.S. have not yet been announced.

Giles Martin, co-producer of The Beatles LOVE album project, is providing his expertise and serving as Music Producer for the game, which is being developed by Haromonix, published by MTV Games and distributed by Electronic Arts.

Exclusive content created by Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix will be made available to people who pre-order the game over the next few months. More details on The Beatles: Rock Band game and pre-order will be revealed in the coming months.

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